To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.